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'Orwellian' | Universities face legal scrutiny after claims of covert monitoring of pro-Palestine staff
Twelve UK universities have been warned of legal risks after allegations they used...
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'Automated suspicion' | Met Police under scrutiny over use of Palantir AI to track employee standards
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it is using artificial intelligence software...
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Punched & bitten | Staff body cameras - invasive surveillance or vital safety measure?
An NHS case study mythbusts concerns that frontline worker body cams are more about...
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‘Stopwatching’ | Morrisons launches monitoring app to spot underperforming shop floor staff
Morrisons will give managers immediate data on staff productivity, helping them pick...
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Fourfold increase | HSBC plans surge in staff surveillance & biometric scans
HSBC is planning a 'four-fold increase' in cameras and more biometric verification...
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Monitoring | PwC defends 'traffic light' office attendance system as HR experts react
PwC has introduced a new system to monitor whether its UK workforce is meeting its...
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'Culture of fear' | Gail's Bakery HR denies using CCTV to spy on staff
A former Gail's worker claimed the bakery is 'cultivating a culture of fear, isolating...
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'Manipulation' | Don't monitor like Musk - increase employee surveillance at your peril
Employees at Elon Musk-owned xAI described the installation of monitoring software...
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'Highly unusual step' | BMW bosses spied on disabled worker in botched bid to prove sick pay fraud
Bosses showed 'level of distrust or hostility' towards disabled worker...
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'Karma' | Revolut tracks staff behaviour with bonus-linked points system
Revolut is using a points-based system to assess staff conduct, with scores directly...
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Cop out | Detective allegedly 'weighted down' laptop keys to fake work-from-home
The detective reportedly weighed down keys for 'considerable periods of time'...
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'Neuro-surveillance' | Biometric and 'emotion-sensing' tech could harm worker wellbeing, report warns
A new report has raised concerns about the growing use of biometric and emotion-sensing...
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Productivity paranoia | WFH monitoring back in spotlight amid high sales of 'mouse jigglers'
With sales of 'mouse jiggler' devices still going strong, the ethics of monitoring...
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Biometrics | What HR needs to know about facial recognition & fingerprint scanning in the workplace
In the rapidly evolving workplace landscape, biometric technology, including facial...
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Privacy concerns | Major leisure firm ordered to stop using facial recognition tech to track staff attendance
The UK's data watchdog has ordered a major leisure firm to end facial recognition...
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Networking or the naughty step | Are in-office mandates taking employees back to their school days?
Back to office mandates over the past year have been nothing short of controversial,...
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'Excessively intrusive' | Amazon fined £27m by data watchdog over employee surveillance
Amazon has been fined more than £27million over what was described as an "excessively...
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Employee monitoring | Next gen AI surveillance will only serve to demotivate the workforce
Artificial intelligence has an almost unlimited volume of uses within the workplace....
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Privacy breach | Firm reprimanded for secretly tracking employee's car
An employer acted unlawfully by secretly tracking the car movements of one of its...
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Snooping Bosses | How can managers beat 'productivity paranoia'?
With the rise of remote working and developments in the technology available, many...
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